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Spectacle, Speculation, Spam. All Things Fall - 3D printed zoetrope by Mat Collishaw. New York’s MoMA Acquires the First Ever (Very Pixelated) Emoji. As of this morning, the Museum of Modern Art in New York has acquired the original 176 emoji for its permanent collection.

Designed by Shigetaka Kurita for cell phones and pagers in 1999, they aren’t exactly the bouncy expressions that make today’s communication what it is. They’re more typographical, for one thing, and they only have six colors—red, orange, lilac, grass green, royal blue, and black. At just 12 pixels by 12 pixels, the glyphs might seem rudimentary (especially beside beer steins, eggplants, and piles of happy poop), but look closer and you’ll find that they’re remarkably efficient communicators. “They’re so incredibly beautiful and expressive, even though the technology at the time was so limited,” says Paola Antonelli, MoMA’s senior curator in the department of architecture and design.

More than that, early emoji were also a marketing tool.

Generative Computer Art

Winged Insects Made From Old Computer Circuit Boards And Electronics. Our society discards a lot of electronics, as they are rendered obsolete almost every day, but artists like Julie Alice Chappell, based in the UK, are there to pick up the pieces and turn them into beautiful recycled art.

In her case, she turns old computer circuit boards and electronics into beautiful winged insects in a series called “Computer Component Bugs.” “With all their tiny components, complex circuitry and bright metallic colours I cannot help but compare them to the detailed patterns we see when we look at nature up close,” Chappell wrote in an article on permaculture.co.uk.
Get Real: Real-Time + Art + Theory + Practice + History — George Braziller. Tale of Tales - Realtime Art Manifesto. Realtime art manifesto 1.

Realtime 3D is a medium for artistic expression. Games are not the only things you can make with realtime 3D technology.And modification of commercial games is not the only option accessible to artists. Realtime 3D is the most remarkable new creative technology since oil on canvas.It is much too important to remain in the hands of toy makers and propaganda machines.We need to rip the technology out of their greedy claws and put them to shame by producingthe most stunning art to grace this planet so far.

Again. And SoundCloud is now a place you can find sounds from the US government space agency, NASA. In addition to the requisite vocal clips (“Houston, we’ve had a problem” and “The Eagle has landed”), you get a lot more.
Visualizing Our Tech Worship With Giant Webs of Circuitry. Technological mandala 20 - Resonator, 2014.

Drones programmed for light painting in the sky. What do you get when you put LEDs on a system of drones and then program them to fly in formation?

Dances With Google Glass
In June 2013, Google launched a competition on Twitter soliciting bids from people interested in beta-testing its latest foray into wearable high tech.

Since 'beta-tester' conjures up visions of bearded geeks in hoodies glued to their Retina displays, some marketing genius at Google coined the term 'Google Glass Explorers' and put a snapshot of a dusky model with pouty lips, a tousled mane, and a sleek band of titanium on her forehead, on the home page of Glass. (Photo: Reuters)
Performing Graphic Design Practice, Femke Snelting. Geocaching. Sensors. With mobile tech, mapping a city’s emotions, memories. PHILADELPHIA -- What can technologies do for us to help us understand what's going on in the city?

University of Pennsylvania urban planning professor Amy Hillier took to the stage here at the second annual TEDxPhilly conference on Tuesday to demonstrate how technology could one day help us look beyond statistics to visualize the very experience of a city. "Could we map emotion? Memory?
SciArt in America - SAiA December 2013. Art, Science and the Sublime: 3 questions with Anna Dumitriu » IAI TV. Is the Romantic idea of the sublime still relevant?

Yes, says Anna Dumitriu, and not just for art, but for science too. Anna Dumitriu is a Brighton-based contemporary artist best known for her work in bio-art. Her practice encompasses installations, interventions and performances, often incorporating diverse materials such as bacteria, robotics, digital projections and embroidery, Dumitriu seeks to blur the boundaries between the arts and the sciences. Dumitriu is founder and Director of the Institute of Unnecessary Research and lead artist on the "Trust me, I'm an artist: towards an ethics of art/science collaboration" project working with the Waag Society in Amsterdam.
Color dancer - Motion Graphics Collective.

In a new performance for Australian Dance Theater, multiple tools merge to produce an array of visual features to accompany the choreography.
An Open Source Video Mixer, Inspired by DIY Space Exploration. As many ponder the fate of hardware mixing, mixing in software continues to advance.
Markov chain. A simple two-state Markov chain A Markov chain (discrete-time Markov chain or DTMC[1]), named after Andrey Markov, is a mathematical system that undergoes transitions from one state to another on a state space. It is a random process usually characterized as memoryless: the next state depends only on the current state and not on the sequence of events that preceded it.
Kinect projector dance. Flow #1 This choreography is about the duett of dance and interactive media. My ispiration is to investigate different possibilities to melt organic hiphop dance with projected light – searching for new shapes, transisition, identities and meanings.

It is a portray of urban artists giving a computer the acces to their very private natural flow. Dancers follow their own flow. Beautiful enough. The flow series contains a number of choreographic and interactive media productions, searching for different digital illustrations of dancing bodies. The Installation. An Interactive Infographic Maps The Future Of Emerging Technology.

Idiots: an animated film with robots on planned obsolescence and dependence on mobile - Geeks and Com '. Sur le site on n’arrête pas de parler de l’actualité des nouvelles technologies avec le dernier produit ou le dernier service.
I wanna VJ. A 'light wand' that lets you create photo realistic images and animations in mid air. Software Development as Artistic Practice: How Open Source Has Changed the Way Art is Made. Artists are notoriously secretive about their processes. Rothko never revealed the complex formulas behind his diaphanous color fields.
Data Mining. Image: Detail of sliced visualization of thirty video samples of Downfall remixes.
How Do You Create A Culture Of Innovation?
This is the third part in a series by Scott Anthony, author of The Little Black Book Of Innovation.